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Fixations and Visual Attention Flashcards

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T/F The eye is NEVER motionless

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true

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What is the functional fovea area?

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+/- 30’ of arc discrete area on the retina within which images are held

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What happens to the discrete area on the retina the longer fixation is held?

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longer fixation=larger area

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What are three types of movements (subconscious)

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tremors, drifts, and micro saccades

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What is a tremor?

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constant, high frequency 30-100 Hz, amp 20” of arc, no VA change

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What is a drift?

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low velocity <0.5 Hz, crosses 15 cones/sec, irregular movement

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What is a microsaccade?

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1-2/sec, corrects drift, large dynamic overshoot component, error correcting, amp of 5’ of arc, amplitude dependent relation

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Which movement is always binocular?

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micro saccades

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Which movement do eyes perform most of the time?

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drifts (95%)

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Which movement is superimposed over the other two?

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tremors

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What factors impact movements?

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peripheral gaze direction increases probability of movement, darkness: less steady and more drifts/correcting saccades

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During normal fixations, what is the relationship between drift and microsaccades?

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Drifts and micro saccades move in the opposite direction and drift is error producing and occurs 95% of the time while micro saccades are error correcting

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What two things make drifts worse?

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greater gaze angle and darkness– evidence of leaky neural integrator

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14
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What improves accuracy of fixations?

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visual feedback

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Even w/o visual feedback, deviation is typically only a few degrees, what does this suggest?

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use of EOM proprioception and tactile info from lids

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What are the three main types of abnormal fixation movements?

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slow drift, saccadic intrusion, and nystagmus

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What is a slow drift?

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found with functional amblyopia, amp 1 degree, velocity <3 deg/sec, irregular, slow frequency <0.5 Hz

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T/F VT will NOT fix a slow drift

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false

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What is a saccadic intrusion

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large fixational saccade that interrupt attempts at fixation; three kinds= square wave jerks, macro square wave jerks, and macro saccadic oscillations

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What is an aberrant tremor?

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seen w/ EEG or coma patient because other movements usually cover them; baseline state of brainstem

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What is a square wave jerk?

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away from the target and then back 200 msec later; dx cerebellar disease if freq/amp increases

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What is a macro square wave jerk?

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larger, more frequency duration off target 100 msec; dx cerebellar disease and multiple sclerosis

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What is a macro saccadic oscillation?

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saccadic sequence increasing then decreasing amplitude to either side of a target; ALSO dx cerebellar disease

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24
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Which of the abnormal fixation movements might you see in clinic?

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macro square wave jerks

25
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T/F fixation in amblyopia improves with feedback

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true

26
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Explain the feedback received by amblyopic patients in the study

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goggles w/ a computer program track fixation, and when the eye leaves the target, the computer makes an auditory stimulus until focus is corrected– allowing the patient to learn to control fixation

27
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What happens during a fixation?

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EOMs keep the eyes still with respect to the visual environment as the head/body moves

28
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What two systems promote visual stabilization?

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VOR vestibulo-ocular and OKN optokinetic

29
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What prevents image degradation?

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micro saccades and the troxler effect

30
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What is true of the scan path of a photograph under free exploration?

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most of the focus is on the face and other objects

31
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What was the Yarbus free exploration study?

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subjects typically focus on faces and objects; under command to judge material status look at clothes and servants; under command to judge age differences look at faces and height

32
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What is true of an expert viewer as compared to a novice?

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Expert has fewer fixations, shorter duration, less random search pattern of fixations– uses vision to derive meaning

33
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What is the primary purpose of the visual system?

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to derive meaning and the direction of action

34
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What is a “consequence” of visual attention?

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selection of an area to pay attention to will cause the omission of some other things (figure vs ground) due to limited scope of attention

35
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What happens to things we focus on during visual attention?

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they get amplified in the system, allowing for persistence of their image for further inspection by higher order process

36
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Most visual problems are problems of ____ not _____

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omission not commission

37
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What are the components of the visual attention system?

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attention window and visual buffer, encoding processes, memory, information look up, and attention shifting

38
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What is inside the attention window?

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figure

39
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What is in the visual buffer?

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ground

40
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____ emerges from ____

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figure, ground

41
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What is the figure processed by?

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object properties–what

42
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What is the ground processed by?

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spatial properties– where

43
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What does associative memory do?

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accesses previous info and gives context

44
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What happens with attention shifting?

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restart the process, does not require an eye movement

45
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What steps does attention/shape shifting entail?

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disengage, move, engage

46
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T/F we have to have a stimulus to shift attention

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false, we have volitional control, we can also inhibit a shift of attention to a stimulus

47
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Which steps of shape shift change the size of the attention window?

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disengage and move

48
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What step do patients with autism have trouble with?

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engage

49
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What step do patients with parkinsons have trouble with?

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disengage

50
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What step do myopes have trouble with?

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disengage

51
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What step do ADHD patients have trouble with?

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inhibition

52
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What is sensory memory?

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the what system

53
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What is motor memory?

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the where system

54
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Object recognition in human vision is provided by:

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separate but simultaneous processing and representation of what and where information at high levels of the visual system

55
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Frame of reference is attached to…

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the basic feature at each fixation point and includes what and where data

56
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Mechanisms of visual attention use ____ info to direct sequential image processing (what to do next)

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where– context and planning

57
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Mechanisms provide comparisons of ___ and ___ object features in each fixation

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current and expected

58
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How do we look at a face?

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One eye to the other then down the nose and around the face

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